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Trump inauguration guest list includes tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk
Fox News ^ | January 16, 2025 | Nikolas Lanum

Posted on 01/16/2025 5:04:22 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration guest list will include some of America's most influential billionaires, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos—signaling a sharp political shift among the tech industry's biggest players.

Silicon Valley, traditionally a stronghold for left-leaning ideals, has largely embraced Trump following the November election. The incoming president amassed a record-breaking inaugural fund with substantial donations from tech executives.

The heads of companies such as Google, OpenAI, Apple, Uber, and Microsoft have also forked over millions to fund inaugural events, including parades and swanky parties.

Several high-profile tech titans visited Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in the past two months.

"Jeff Bezos came," Trump said last week. "Bill Gates came. Mark Zuckerberg came. Many of them came numerous times. The bankers have all come. Everybody is coming."

The move represents a major departure for Big Tech, which largely imposed a temporary ban on Trump's public profiles in 2020 via their social media platforms. These companies have also become more critical of the Biden administration, voicing displeasure with the White House's attempts at oversight.

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1 posted on 01/16/2025 5:04:22 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Some believe it was Sun-Tzu, a Chinese general and military strategist (c. 500 BC). However his quotation was different. He said, "Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious."

And while "Michael Corleone" did say that in the movie The Godfather Part II.

The actual origin of the quote was from Machiavelli in "The Prince" which is the definitive primer on how to be a dictator.

2 posted on 01/16/2025 5:25:46 PM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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To: MinorityRepublican

And CEO of TikTok too lol.


3 posted on 01/16/2025 5:31:32 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI..Exactly.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Overall, this isn’t good news. They tried lawfare, canceling and assassination. They they are trying guile and seduction.


4 posted on 01/16/2025 5:33:01 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI..Exactly.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Zuckerberg is a leech.


5 posted on 01/16/2025 5:35:39 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.


6 posted on 01/16/2025 5:36:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Do we have an oligarchy or only quasi oligarchy?

MengeleGates needs to kneel in pig shit, and then be rejected .


7 posted on 01/16/2025 5:52:03 PM PST by A strike (death to taggers)
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To: DesertRhino

I think Zuck is afraid he will lose subsiding for his rockets that don’t fly.


8 posted on 01/16/2025 5:59:28 PM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

All three of them are up to their necks in the swamp.

Give them enough rope to hang themselves, then cancel all their .gov contracts and get Congress to get rid of all the subsidies and carve-outs that created such modern Shibboleths, (i.e. not Titans).


9 posted on 01/16/2025 6:05:02 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: MinorityRepublican
Many of them came numerous times. The bankers have all come. Everybody is coming."

Same story during the Stormy Daniels days.

I still believe Trump was innocent. Grifters like her and that delusional E. Jean Carroll who made up a memory from EITHER 1995 or 1996 to bilk him out of millions.

10 posted on 01/16/2025 6:07:32 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: bakeneko

“Jeff Bezos came,” Trump said last week. “Bill Gates came. Mark Zuckerberg came. Many of them came numerous times. The bankers have all come. Everybody is coming.”


11 posted on 01/16/2025 6:07:58 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: All

They were worried that Trump might cut back on the amount of H1b visa invaders.


12 posted on 01/16/2025 6:53:52 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Dear President Donald J. Trump, please do not trust nor believe anything which Zuckerberg, Bezos or any other dim, lefty, liberal, dim-socialist, communist, authoritarian, totalitarian, dictatorial-two faced beings, say. They have already shown their colors.

In addition, Faux news is not your friend. They have placed Musk alongside Bezos and Zuckerberg as if they are peas in a pod.


13 posted on 01/16/2025 7:47:30 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: dfwgator
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."

I'm sure President Trump knows what a snake Zuckerberg is. He's dealt with many snakes in his life. Zuckerberg is just one more.

14 posted on 01/16/2025 7:49:29 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

Well said.


15 posted on 01/16/2025 8:35:26 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Zuckerbucks cannot be trusted - just a new face over the same marxist but with new tactics.

Kinda like this new version of evil...


16 posted on 01/17/2025 3:13:08 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: DesertRhino

“””Overall, this isn’t good news. They tried lawfare, canceling and assassination. They they are trying guile and seduction.”””


I agree. The oligarchs used their money to get Democrats elected so the Democrat puppets would engage in lawfare against MAGA.

Now the oligarchs are moving inside the GOP to stop the MAGA agenda.

The only good news out of this is that the Democrats will no longer have any money, nor will the Democrats have any viable candidates or programs that are popular with the majority of Americans.


17 posted on 01/17/2025 5:22:03 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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“Well said.”

Thank you, but I forgot to add the absolute worst of the bunch: RINOs


18 posted on 01/17/2025 4:37:06 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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